Stanislaw Mokronowski

Stanislaw Mokronowski (1761-1821) was a general of the Polish Army during the War of the Second Partition and Kosciuszko's Uprising.

Biography
Stanislaw Mokronowski was born in 1761 in Bogucin, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (present-day Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland). He was from a family of landed gentry, and served in the military of the Kingdom of France for a few years. In 1788, he was elected to the Sejm and allied with the House of Poniatowski in politics, and in 1792 he won a victory against invading Russian Empire forces at the Battle of Zielence while under Prince Jozef Poniatowski's command. He was promoted to Lieutenant-General, and Mokronowski took part in the 1794 Warsaw Uprising against the Russian garrison, but he was removed from the political body of the rebellion due to criticizing Tadeusz Kosciuszko. Mokronowski was vital in defending Warsaw from the invading armies, but he retired to Italy after the uprising was crushed. He returned to Warsaw shortly before his death in 1821, dying at home in Poland.